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Were fast-food workers paid to strike and protest?
McDonald's says protesters were paid to walk off the job, which strikers say is a corruption of the fact that unions pay arrest fines -
Amazon's tantrum over books cost me $212 at a real bookstore
I paid $99 for an Amazon Prime membership, but the company's standoff with Hachette over ebooks forced me to spend more at bookstores to get the selection I needed, writes Suzanne McGee
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A tale of two Brooklyns: there's more to my borough than hipsters and coffee
Forget the yuppies and their real estate ills. There's a whole economic mix in Brooklyn that gets completely ignored -
US employment payrolls drop because of strikes at one supermarket chain
Market Basket's troubled summer shows how regional drama affects lower job growth across the whole US -
The misery of dealing with cable companies creates wave of cord-cutters
Comcast wanted some answers about why its customers were leaving. Here are some provided by Guardian readers -
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Editor's picks
Why do you have to buy an iPhone 6 to get a working digital wallet? Think different
Apple's new payments system seems promising, but why is it limited only to the elite? The postal service can serve everyone, writes David Dayen
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Deportation and depression: undocumented immigrants struggle with mental health
Suicide attempts and mental health crises define experiences of young migrants fighting to resolve their legal status in America -
The cost of a whiter, more successful Detroit: more fines for black residents
Detroit's gentrified makeover means more policing of nuisance crimes – but the fines fall disproportionately on black residents
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Billionaires and concubines: A playwright's satirical take on slow US economic recovery
The Jackson Hole Symposium gathers economists far away from civilisation while others write satires about recession and sex
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Who's paying for your birth control?
The Hobby Lobby case created bewilderment around the coverage of birth control, used by 99% of American women of childbearing age.